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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Hippocrates

Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Constitution Exercisepositive Fall Food Health Home Knowledge Natural Power Primary Require Various
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Doctor Everyone Help Her Him Just Work
Sport is a preserver of health.
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Health Preserver Sport
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Art Disease Factor Patient Tyree
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Away Develop Use Waste
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Act Declare Diagnose Disease Foretell Habit Help Make Past Practice Present Thing Two
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Body Disease Health Itself Learn Must Natural Observation Truth Turn
Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Divine Pain Relieve Task
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Also Art Love Man

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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